Rankings · education
Countries by literacy rate
Share of the population aged 15 years and older who can read and write. 47 countries ranked for 2022 (%).
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| 1 |  Tuvalu | 100% | – | – |
| 2 |  Uzbekistan | 100% | – | – |
| 3 |  San Marino | 99.9% | – | – |
| 4 |  Turkmenistan | 99.9% | – | – |
| 5 |  Armenia | 99.8% | – | – |
| 6 |  Georgia | 99.6% | – | – |
| 7 |  Qatar | 99.3% | +2.7% | = |
| 8 |  Republic of Serbia | 99.3% | – | – |
| 9 |  Niue | 99.1% | – | – |
| 10 |  Uruguay | 98.9% | +0.5% | ▼ 7 |
| 11 |  Mongolia | 98.7% | – | – |
| 12 |  United Arab Emirates | 98.3% | – | – |
| 13 |  Bahrain | 97.9% | – | – |
| 14 |  Palestine | 97.8% | +2.2% | ▼ 4 |
| 15 |  Oman | 97.3% | – | – |
| 16 |  Ecuador | 96.3% | +4.6% | ▲ 3 |
| 17 |  Vietnam | 96.1% | – | – |
| 18 |  Malaysia | 95.8% | – | – |
| 19 |  Colombia | 95.3% | – | – |
| 20 |  Mexico | 95.1% | +1.0% | ▼ 6 |
| 21 |  Brazil | 94.4% | +3.4% | = |
| 22 |  Dominican Republic | 93.7% | +3.9% | = |
| 23 |  Sri Lanka | 92.5% | – | – |
| 24 |  Thailand | 91.1% | – | – |
| 25 |  Eswatini | 90.8% | – | – |
| 26 |  El Salvador | 89.4% | +4.6% | ▼ 1 |
| 27 |  Iran | 88.6% | +6.0% | ▲ 1 |
| 28 |  Honduras | 88.2% | +3.3% | ▼ 2 |
| 29 |  Belize | 87.9% | – | – |
| 30 |  Papua New Guinea | 87% | – | – |
| 31 |  Guatemala | 83% | +6.0% | ▼ 1 |
| 32 |  Zambia | 80% | – | – |
| 33 |  Egypt | 79.5% | +7.6% | ▲ 2 |
| 34 |  Bangladesh | 79% | +36.4% | ▲ 7 |
| 35 |  Rwanda | 78.8% | +15.4% | ▲ 5 |
| 36 |  United Republic of Tanzania | 78.2% | +0.1% | ▼ 5 |
| 37 |  India | 76.3% | +9.3% | ▲ 1 |
| 38 |  Togo | 72.6% | – | – |
| 39 |  Timor-Leste | 69.4% | – | – |
| 40 |  Bhutan | 64.9% | +17.4% | ▲ 3 |
| 41 |  Guinea-Bissau | 63.9% | – | – |
| 42 |  Mozambique | 61.7% | – | – |
| 43 |  Ethiopia | 60.5% | – | – |
| 44 |  Somalia | 54.1% | – | – |
| 45 |  Benin | 51.4% | – | – |
| 46 |  Burkina Faso | 40.9% | – | – |
| 47 |  Niger | 35.6% | +16.3% | ▼ 3 |
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